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I'm messing with SRU search of http://indexdata.dk/opencontent/oaister I have some behavior I can't explain. There's this article that is in OAISter, called ""Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures" by "Robert S. Jensen". I do an SRU search with query: dc.title = "Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures" And I find the record, one hit. Good. You too could try, and see what the DC returned looks like. It does have a dc:creator of Robert S. Jensen. But I try a search that includes the author. dc.title = "Resurrection and Appropriation: Reputational Trajectories, Memory Work, and the Political Use of Historical Figures" and dc.creator = "Jensen" 0 hits. and cql.serverChoice = "Jensen" => 0 hits Same using full name "Robert S. Jensen" (just as it appears in the record), with cql.serverChoice or dc.creator. Is this just a bad index, or is something else going on, or what? As I try sample searches on title and author, I keep running into false negatives for things that ought to be in the OAISter index. Sometimes I can figure out why (title not quite right; title has curly quotes, index does not, etc.), but in this case I have no idea. But the net result is it's hard to actually find your known item this way, via an automated search on known item metadata. Jonathan -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu